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unusual facts about Peres



Álvaro Gonçalves Pereira

Álvaro Gonçalves Pereira, Prior of Crato, was born to Gonçalo (Gonçalves) Pereira, 97th Archbishop of Braga (1326-1349) and Teresa Peres Vilarinho.

Álvaro Pires de Castro

Álvaro Pires de Castro (sometimes written as "Peres de Castro" or "Pérez de Castro") was the illegitimate son of the powerful Galician nobleman Pedro Fernández de Castro and his mistress Mayor Leguizamon.

Anshei Sphard Beth El Emeth Congregation

Yellow fever epidemics in the 1870s affected the congregation's leadership; its rabbi, Ferdinand Sarner, died in 1878, and Jacob Peres died in 1879.

Their new congregation, guided by Rabbi Jacob Peres, who had been B'nai Israel's first rabbi, was committed to maintaining the "minhag Polen" (traditions of the Polish Jews).

Camões family

Aires Peres de Camões, following the party of King John I of Portugal, was a Captain of a galley of the fleet that left from Porto against the coast of Galicia, from where the General was the Count de Trastamara.

Fredrik Heffermehl

Among the laureates perceived by Heffermehl as illegal are the more controversial laureates, such as Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho (1973) and Arafat, Peres and Rabin (1994), but also less controversial ones such as Mother Teresa (1979) and Elie Wiesel (1986).

Hank Greenspun

During World War II, while stationed in Northern Ireland, Greenspun met his wife, Barbara, at a dinner party hosted by Maureen Black (née Peres) daughter of Harold Peres of Solomon and Peres and wife of British Businessman, Roy Keith Black.

Kadima leadership election, 2008

(Note--Israeli primary polls can often be very unreliable due to poor sampling and turnout predictions. Most of the polls in the 2012 Kadima primary showed that Livni would beat Mofaz, yet Mofaz ended up winning in the end by a 62-38% margin, a whopping 24% difference. Likewise, Amir Peretz beat former Prime Minister Shimon Peres in the 2005 Labor leadership primary despite the fact that all or most of the polls predicted a solid Peres victory.)

Koenig Memorandum

Additionally, both the Tel Aviv magazine, New Outlook and the New York newspaper Jewish Press reported in the fall of 1976 that Koenig had collaborated with prominent activists in Mapai, the party of Ben-Gurion, Eshkol, Meir, Peres and Rabin to prepare the report, and that Zvi Aldoraty, Mapai candidate for Director of Arab Affairs, was a major co-author.

Michael Wachtler

In 2007, on Piz da Peres in Val Badia, he discovered primitive dinosaur footprints dating back 240 million years ago which he analysed together with Marco Avanzini and Rossana Todesco.

Mika Tan

Tan studied classical voice at the Magdalena Perés School of Voice and says she is a graduate of the John Robert Powers finishing school.

Paweł Horodecki

He is best known for introducing (together with his father Ryszard Horodecki and brother Michał Horodecki) the so-called Peres-Horodecki criterion for testing whether a state is entangled and showing that there exist states which are entangled, but no pure entangled states can be obtained from them by means of local operations and classical communication (LOCC).

Peres Center for Peace

In 2010 the Peres Peace House won the Emilio Ambasz Prize for Green Architecture and the Yesodot Ha'emek Prize for Israeli Architecture.

Peres de Oliveira

Peres De Oliveira, also known as Peres , (born 7 November 1974) is a Brazilian professional football player who last played for Home United FC in S.League.

Quai Voltaire

The Quai Voltaire begins at the Rue des Saints-Pères and ends at the Rue de Bac and the Pont Royal.

Renana Peres

After completing her Masters in Physics, Peres worked as a Process engineer at Intel, Jerusalem.

WPHE

Radio 7 was divided in Revista Radio Cultural with its main show Tiempo Latino in the mornings and Summer evenings, produced and hosted by Frantz Santiago-Peretz and Radio Nuevo Horizonte Spanish religious block in the afternoons led by Rev. Jose Rivera.


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